The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
When poets love, Heaven and Earth fall back to watch!
109 min
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
- Release date
- September 21, 1934
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Herbert Stothart
- Budget
- $820,000
- Box office
- $1,258,000
Where to watch
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Cast
- Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett
- Fredric March as Robert Browning
- Charles Laughton as Edward Moulton-Barrett
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Henrietta Barrett
- Katharine Alexander as Arabel Barrett
- Ralph Forbes as Captain Surtees Cook
- Ian Wolfe as Harry Bevan
- Marion Clayton Anderson as Bella Hedley
- Leo G. Carroll as Dr. Ford-Waterlow
- Ferdinand Munier as Dr. Chambers
- Una O'Connor as Wilson
- Vernon Downing as Octavius Barrett
- Peter Hobbes as Septimus Barrett
Crew
- Sidney Franklin · Director
- Rudolph Besier · Writer
- Ernest Vajda · Writer
- Claudine West · Writer
- Donald Ogden Stewart · Writer
- Herbert Stothart · Composer
- William H. Daniels · Cinematographer
- Margaret Booth · Editor